Robert Davis explains that log shipping can be better than mirroring for database migrations:
This topic has come up several times recently, so I feel the need to blog on it. As the person who wrote the book on Database Mirroring, it will probably come as a surprise to many of you that I believe that log shipping is a much better tool for database migrations than database mirroring.
I’m not just talking about the fact that database mirroring is deprecated (since SQL Server 2012) and log shipping is not. Both are still in SQL Server to this day. Because database mirroring is deprecated, it is no longer receiving bug fixes (except maybe critical security bugs) and no work is being done to make sure that it works with new features in current and future versions. Log shipping is still receiving both of these things. I will lay out the real reasons below.
Robert makes two compelling arguments in favor of log shipping.